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Are you in SF? When I lived in LA, this seemed like far less of an issue than in Northern California, where people seemed incredibly stuck up and generally awfu
by claudeganon 6y ago
Are you in SF? When I lived in LA, this seemed like far less of an issue than in Northern California, where people seemed incredibly stuck up and generally awful. Something like 40% of LA doesn’t speak English at home and I would imagine a comparable number (if not more) speak with some kind of accent. If you clung to judging people because of their accents, you’d find yourself outside most social circles there.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> I would imagine a comparable number (if not more) speak with some kind of accent Everyone speaks with ‘some kind of accent’.
- claudeganon 6y agoYes, of course. Native Californians often asked me where I was originally from based solely on my noticeable Midwestern accent.
- chrisseaton 6y agoI guess this comment is snark, but I don’t know what the connotation of a Midwestern accent is in California to know for sure. But anyway as you say, you do still speak with an accent even if it is a common one. We all speak with accents!
- claudeganon 6y agoNot snark at all. I don’t know the connotations because I’m not a Native Californian, but people would comment about how my speaking nasally and apologizing too much (both of which you can find in just about any parody of Midwestern culture).
- cortesoft 6y agoAs a native californian, the only connotation I know of having a Midwest accent is about the sounds.... there is no real characteristic that the accent evokes
- nitrogen 6y agoWe can probably assume, charitably, that they meant relative to the predominant local dialect. For what it's worth, as someone originally from a semi-rural area, I think there is some truth to the idea that some in SF have an anti-rural bias.